Bob James – Night Crawler (1977)

There are 2 guys in particular who have been sampled so many times by different artists over the last 30 years that hip hop, dance and electronica would have sounded very different without them.

One of them you already know – James Brown. But the other, who has literally been sampled dozens of times by one producer after another is the lesser known but brilliant jazz/funk/lounge keyboard player and writer – Bob James.